Table 6: Previous studies undertaken to investigate the VAWT wake flow field.
Authors |
Number of control volumes (106) |
Turbine diameter [m] |
λ |
Surface control volume first node height |
He, et al. [39] |
10 |
1.03 |
1.4-2.5 |
y+ < 1 |
Marsh, et al. [35] |
17.3 |
0.914 |
1.5-3.5 |
y+ < 1 |
Orlandi, et al. [14] |
2.7 |
17 |
2-6 |
y+ < 5 |
Elkhoury, et al. [24] |
15.371 |
0.8 |
0.25-1.5 |
y+ < 1 |
Alaimo, et al. [18] |
10.96 |
1.98 |
0.4-1.8 |
y+ < 10 |
Subramanian, et al. [20] |
3.67 |
2.7 |
1-3 |
y+ < 1 |
Zamani, et al. [21] |
12.519 |
2.5 |
0.6-1.8 |
y+ < 1 |
Wang, et al. [22] |
4.9 |
1 |
0.5-3.5 |
y+ < 50 |
Joo, et al. [40] |
1.7 |
2 |
1-5.5 |
y+ < 30 |